My exact DR-10L menu, setting by setting, with the reasoning behind each one. Including the one setting that only appears after you update the firmware.
Continue readingBest settings for the Tascam DR-10L Audio Recorder
Laughing through life by your side | Cute & Tearful Wedding in Dallas, Texas
Emotional may be the best word to describe Caitlin and Tanner’s wedding day. In fact, we can’t really think of a time that one of them wasn’t happy crying.
Continue readingI was a guest on the Be Creative Podcast!
A few weeks ago, Caleb Peavy of the Be Creative Podcast asked me to be on and chat with him all about (what else?) being creative! I have been a guest on a couple of others too, including Just Fix It In Post and the Wedding Film Academy podcast. Before I was on, I did some research and saw that most of his podcasts were going 20-30 minutes in length. “No problem,” I thought, “Mine will be right in there at the average length of 25 minutes.” Welp, we talked for 53 minutes, so I hope you guys enjoy it. Caleb and I touched on how I got into filmmaking, the origin of my website name, and then we went super deep about a lot of my creative insecurities and how I fight them off, which I also wrote up as how to stay creative as a filmmaker. Also, I found out that Seth Godin was going to be on the podcast a week after me so I can add “On the same podcast (but not at the same time) as Seth Godin,” which is easily one of my highest accomplishments now.
You can listen in your web browser here, or on the Be Creative Podcast site, or on iTunes.
How To Create Facebook Cover Videos Using Premiere Pro CC
Facebook recommends 820×462 and then makes you drag the whole video into position for every shot at once. Build it at 820×312 instead and it just drops in.
Continue reading“Ever since our first date I knew you were the one” | Downtown Dallas Wedding Film
Chris and Rachel got married in downtown Dallas on a cold, rainy day, 501 days after a first date that both of them knew about by the end of the night.
Continue readingI hosted the Wedding Film Academy Podcast!
This week I had the opportunity to not only be on a podcast, but host it! My good friend Jordan Bunch, the regular host of The Wedding Film Academy Podcast (which I was on back in March), reached out to me about interviewing him about a topic that I didn’t know much about: volume wedding film brands. Usually he runs the show but in this case, considering he wanted to talk about his own company, we decided it would be a great idea to have me ask the questions.
There are many ways to run a wedding film business, and one of the most interesting is the concept of a volume company – one that films hundreds of weddings per year, usually at a lower cost than competitors. To hear Jordan describe it, his company Ladybird Wedding Films is the Toyota of wedding filmmakers: cheap, reliable, and with good gas mileage (not sure about that last one in regards to wedding films). Because he runs this company very differently than how I run FilmStrong Productions, I ended up having a ton of questions about everything from video quality to business sustainability. I would highly recommend checking out the podcast on Jordan’s site or on iTunes if you would like to learn more about different styles of wedding filmmaking businesses.
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